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Abstract

A number of researchers are studying regional
specifications of Russia from a variety
of different perspectives. Economic geography
has developed its own methods of approaching
the study of territories, and looks, in particular,
at geographical distribution of labour. In this
article, we use the framework provided by this
discipline to describe the changes in the economy
of the Russian North-West in the first decade
of the 21st century. We combine publicly
available data to propose new methods of
evaluation of regional economic efficiency. We
also identify and describe new trends of North-
West development that have not yet been reflected
upon by the researchers in the field. We
conclude that, having overcome the crisis of
the 1990s, the economy of the Russian North-
West displays an overall positive trend of coming
back to the territorial structures of the beginning
of the 20th century.